Veronica Guerin (2003)
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Reviews Counted:134
Fresh:72
Rotten:62
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Cate Blanchett gives another great performance in a movie that doesn't shed much light on its title character.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: VERONICA GUERIN, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joel Schumacher, is the true story of the tenacious Irish crime reporter (Cate Blanchett) who exposed the brutal drug trade in 1990s... [More]
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciaran Hinds, Brenda Fricker
Director: Joel Schumacher
Reviews for Veronica Guerin
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Cate Blanchett is a vital presence as Veronica and should have romantic teenagers lining up to get into journalism school. Full Review |
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3/5 |
A moving but gritty story of willpower and sacrifice that stops pleasingly short of a Hollywood varnish-job. Full Review |
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Blanchett gets the accent impeccably, and encompasses both the woman's determined heroism and her delight in the picture byline, but neither she nor the screenplay digs any deeper than secular hagiography. Full Review |
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1/4 |
A big and glossy piece of crap that seems to be using the right tricks to get us teary-eyed, but hasn't got any heart. Full Review |
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Worth a look for Blanchett alone, but it's strangely unsatisfying. Full Review |
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1/5 |
The film crams in every modern Oirish cliche in the book and Cate Blanchett gives a supercilious and queenly impersonation of what she and director Joel Schumacher imagine to be a twinkle-eyed force of nature. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Well-acted and worthy, but ultimately rather dull movie, let down by a half-hearted script and a sudden climactic dive into sentimentality. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Ultimately descends into the kind of tabloid sensationalism surely not befitting the no-nonsense journalist. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Blanchett holds the film together gorgeously.... Because of this, you can almost forgive Schumacher for badly over-egging the story. Full Review |
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B+ |
Cate Blanchett gives a tour de force performance as Veronica Guerin under Joel Schumacher's direction of a no-nonsense script by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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Well-meaning but simpleminded. Full Review |
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86/100 |
...a respectful quasi-documentary Full Review |
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3/5 |
Blanchett nearly saves it, but it's too much a plastic-Jesus biopic. Full Review |
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71/100 |
While this is a movie that deserves a mildly favourable recommendation, it's also nothing short of a catastrophic fumble and an incredible lost opportunity. Full Review |
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2/4 |
If you take out Cate Blanchett's amazing performance, you're left with a dull husk of a film from a director who knows little about filmmaking. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Cate Blanchett is most likely the greatest actress working in film today. Full Review |
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While I was watching Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett, I kept imagining the movie it might have been before director Joel Schumacher and producer Jerry Bruckheimer got their hands on it. Full Review |
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Sporting a perfect Irish accent, [Cate Blanchett] imbues the character with a lot more presence than the script (and the director?) called for. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for Veronica Guerin
May 11, 2005:
Fox Searchlight to Do a "Scandal" with Blanchett & Dench
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